On Oct 6, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Bill McIntyre wrote:
I'm afraid I must be missing the concept. I am at the step where it asks me to select a format to erase. As near as I can tell, you are advising me on a format that should remain.
No, you are understanding it backwards. It is asking you what format you want to make the drive upon erasing it, and that is a list of possible format structures that Disk Utility can create on that drive. You should select the one you want the drive to be turned into when it is formatted.
Are you saying I should erase every format but DOS for something I plan to use in Macs?
That is correct. You can do HFS+ if you want, but then you are limited to only using the drive in Macs. If you use DOS, it will work in Macs and PCs and most everything else, as just about all OSes these days can read and write to DOS formatted drives.
If it is only ever going to be used on a Mac, then I would go with HFS + (Mac OS Extended) as then it will make it a little better for reading and writing Mac multi-fork files. But since the whole point of one of these USB drives is to be portable storage for moving around between lots of different machines, you probably want to go with the most universal format you can, which would be DOS.
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